Encounters on the Front Line

Cambodia: A Memoir

Elaine Harvey

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Elaine Harvey
27 November 2015

Biography: science, technology & engineering; Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Memoirs; History; Travel & holiday guides

In 1980 Elaine Harvey worked for the International Red Cross in the Cambodian refugee camps immediately after the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. It was a time when sorrow fell like monsoon rain. ""I was not a victim of war, poverty, or starvation, but I was a witness. As a witness, I came to understand that front lines take a toll in our lives. They test how far we will go, how much we will give and how deep we will travel.""In 2007 and 2009 she returned to Cambodia, volunteering in a rural orphanage and a city hospice. She met the people on the front lines â the human rights activists, the caregivers, and those who needed care, inspiring her to explore the challenges of service. Her journey was a quest of the heart to meet the new face of Cambodia and honour the one she left behind.

By: Elaine Harvey
Imprint: Elaine Harvey
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 36mm, Spine: 139mm
Weight: 472g
ISBN: 9781927559666
ISBN 10: 1927559669
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 27 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elaine Harvey is a nurse, a writer, a healing touch practitioner and a traveller. A diverse career and her adventurous spirit have taken her to remote regions of the world with experiences in Asia and Africa marking her world view. She currently resides in Victoria, on the west coast of Canada. Encounters on the Front Line is Elaine's first book of creative non-fiction.

Reviews for Encounters on the Front Line: Cambodia: A Memoir

There are countless untold stories of witness after genocide. Few can summon the stamina to tell them. What is it like to work in a refugee camp of 100,000 traumatized people? What does it mean to try to make sense of such human tragedy thirty years later? Elaine Harvey's Encounters on the Front Line is the compelling answer to these questions, her story well and passionately told. To read this book is also to witness to our times. -- Kim Echlin author of The Disappeared, a Giller Prize finalist